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2 Advent

Psalm 25

Prayer for Guidance and for Deliverance

Of David.

1 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.2 O my God, in you I trust;do not let me be put to shame;do not let my enemies exult over me.3 Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame;let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;teach me your paths.5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me,for you are the God of my salvation;for you I wait all day long.

6 Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love,for they have been from of old.7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;according to your steadfast love remember me,for your goodness’ sake, O Lord!

8 Good and upright is the Lord;therefore he instructs sinners in the way.9 He leads the humble in what is right,and teaches the humble his way.10 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

11 For your name’s sake, O Lord,pardon my guilt, for it is great.12 Who are they that fear the Lord?He will teach them the way that they should choose.

13 They will abide in prosperity,and their children shall possess the land.14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,and he makes his covenant known to them.15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord,for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am lonely and afflicted.17 Relieve the troubles of my heart,and bring me[a] out of my distress.18 Consider my affliction and my trouble,and forgive all my sins.

19 Consider how many are my foes,and with what violent hatred they hate me.20 O guard my life, and deliver me;do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me,for I wait for you.

Footnotes:

Psalm 9

God’s Power and Justice

To the leader: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

1 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.2 I will be glad and exult in you;I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3 When my enemies turned back,they stumbled and perished before you.4 For you have maintained my just cause;you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;you have blotted out their name forever and ever.6 The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;their cities you have rooted out;the very memory of them has perished.

7 But the Lord sits enthroned forever,he has established his throne for judgment.8 He judges the world with righteousness;he judges the peoples with equity.

9 The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,a stronghold in times of trouble.10 And those who know your name put their trust in you,for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.Declare his deeds among the peoples.12 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

13 Be gracious to me, O Lord.See what I suffer from those who hate me;you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,14 so that I may recount all your praises,and, in the gates of daughter Zion,rejoice in your deliverance.

15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.16 The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment;the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.Higgaion. Selah

17 The wicked shall depart to Sheol,all the nations that forget God.

18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

19 Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;let the nations be judged before you.20 Put them in fear, O Lord;let the nations know that they are only human.Selah

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Psalm 15

Psalm 15

Who Shall Abide in God’s Sanctuary?

A Psalm of David.

1 O Lord, who may abide in your tent?Who may dwell on your holy hill?

2 Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,and speak the truth from their heart;3 who do not slander with their tongue,and do no evil to their friends,nor take up a reproach against their neighbors;4 in whose eyes the wicked are despised,but who honor those who fear the Lord;who stand by their oath even to their hurt;5 who do not lend money at interest,and do not take a bribe against the innocent.

Those who do these things shall never be moved.

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Amos 7:1-9

Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb Line

7 This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings). 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!How can Jacob stand?He is so small!”3 The Lord relented concerning this;“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

4 This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire,[a] and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5 Then I said,

“O Lord God, cease, I beg you!How can Jacob stand?He is so small!”6 The Lord relented concerning this;“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“See, I am setting a plumb linein the midst of my people Israel;I will never again pass them by;9 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Footnotes:

Introduction and Salutation

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants[a] what must soon take place; he made[b] it known by sending his angel to his servant[c] John, 2 who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

3 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near.

4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and freed[d] us from our sins by his blood, 6 and made[e] us to be a kingdom, priests serving[f] his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

7 Look! He is coming with the clouds;every eye will see him,even those who pierced him;and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail.

So it is to be. Amen.

8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

The Question about the Resurrection

23 The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection;[a] and they asked him a question, saying, 24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. 26 The second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh. 27 Last of all, the woman herself died. 28 In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For all of them had married her.”

29 Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels[b] in heaven. 31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead, but of the living.” 33 And when the crowd heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.

Footnotes:

Matthew 22:23Other ancient authorities read who say that there is no resurrection

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